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Impressions of Russian Dairy Farming¹

Animal Husbandry Research Division, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland and Department of Dairy Husbandry, University of Wisconsin, Madison

ABSTRACT

It is evident that since the end of the war and during the post-war reconstruction period Russian livestock specialists and farmers have made considerable progress in increasing the number of cattle kept for milk, the production per cow, and total output. At the same time, they have greatly improved the feeding and management conditions under which the cows are kept. There is every indication that this progress will continue. The Russians place great store in developing animals particularly adapted to specific environmental or regional conditions. They do not hesitate to mix breeds to attain this end. They attach little importance to frills, rather, they concentrate on utility items that will move them fastest to their goal of outdoing the United States in meat and milk production.

¹ This paper is taken in part from Livestock in the Soviet Union, published by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 1961. The reader is referred to this report for a fuller discussion of the livestock industry of the U.S.S.R. in 1959. For the convenience of the reader, all figures have been converted to U. S. usage by appropriate conversion factors.